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Bo-Irish Holsteins and Bo-Irish Newfies are owned by the Gary
and Mary Housner family in rural Elroy, Wisconsin.
Bo-Irish was named after our heritage, Gary
is Bohemian
and Mary is Irish and thence the name. We have
been blessed with our family that consists of 5 children as well as 6 wonderful
grandchildren that enjoy everything the farm has to offer from the baby
calves, as well as the goats, llamas, horses, and of course the playful
puppies. About six years ago, we added Newfoundland
dogs to our dairy
family. We decided to breed these wonderful companions and now have our
puppies in 23 states including Alaska.
Our registered
Holstein herd consists of 185 head of cattle, including 76 milking cows
as well as the youngstock of heifers and bulls. We milk 3x a day and have
bred several national leaders for milk production, fat, and protein. We
normally have from 10 to 15 elite cows on the top 5,000 CTPI locator list.
Our BAA is 109.7 with 8 Excellent, 26 Very Good, and 7 Good Plus.
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We have had success with
several homebred bulls doing well at Select Sires, especially Bo-Irish RJ
Lead Ready-ET and Bo-Irish RJ Reliable-ET. More recently, our bull,
Bo-Irish Alton-ET at ABS, has been on the top TPI international bull list
for the past few years. We also bred the no. 1 bull in the Czech Republic,
Gorgonzola. Gorgonzola is 24th on the January 2008 TPI bull list as well.
We
also have other cows doing exceptionally well at Bo-Irish (besides the 5
that we are featuring below). We have 2 Outside twin sisters, scored VG 88 and EX
90 producing over 2100 lbs of fat. An 86 pt. Durham daughter out of a 94
pt. Progress that is just fresh with her 2nd calf and milking well. We have
an exciting Damion heifer out of a 96 pt. Counsellor that we are currently
flushing.
It is
our hope at Bo-Irish to continue to provide genetics for the world with high
CTPI, high production, and high type for the future.
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Bo-Irish Hershey Kisses
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92 EEEEE |
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4-00 3x 365 42190
3.8 1616 3.2 1330 |
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This Durham daughter has 3 sons at
Semex as well as others in AI. Her embryos have been sold to many
foreign countries. We have quite a few milking family members from
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Hershey Kisses family |
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Bo-Irish Goldwyn Kissa3-ET |
Pedigree |
| Coming Soon...
Bo-Irish Goldwyn Kissa3-ET picture |
| Granddaughter - Bo-Irish Goldwyn Kissa3 is
just fresh with an awesome Mac heifer.
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| She is creating lots
of embryo & AI interest. |
| Will be picturing & scoring her in the
early Spring 2008 |
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Bo-Irish Durham Baby
Doll
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92 VEEEE with 94
pt. mammary and 94 pt. feet & legs |
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4-01 3x 365
37060 4.0 1494 3.4 1271 |
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Another Durham daughter
with embryos sent to several countries. We are currently flushing
Baby Doll. She has fancy Mac and Lou daughters. |
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Schillview T Generocity-ET
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Now scored 87 pts. EX-MS |
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Generocity will finish her record at over 40,000 lbs. of
milk with a 4.6% fat and 3.1% protein as a 2 yr. old. |
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From the Mtoto Geanie family |
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Has a Toystory son at ABS that is participating in their
young sire sampling program, Bo-Irish Gallager-ET |
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Currently has a Toystory daughter under contract |
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Other sons in AI |
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2nd-Look Boliver
5321 (Emily)
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Emily is a fancy,
young 86 pt. Boliver out of an 87 pt. Morty, out of a 90 pt. Durham that
is developing nicely. She is finishing her record over 40,000 of
milk as a 2 yr. old, with a 4.4% fat and 3.2% protein. We are still
flushing her to fill contracts for embryos and bulls. |
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Glen-Vally Shott Cassia-ET
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Glen-Valley Shott
Cassia has scored 84 pts. VG-FL, VG-MS, on her first classification 2
months fresh, and will be seeing a classifier again in April. |
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Cassia is a promising Shottle
daughter out of Glen-Valley Durham Casino |
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2nd dam Glen-Valley Win Caprice EX 93
is dam to the popular AI sire, 'Glen' |
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This proven bull
family is heavily contracted. |
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Cassia was
contracted as a virgin heifer and has a Bolton son at Semex.
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Fresh in November
of '07 and milking 130 lbs./day. |
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Currently flushing Cassia to fill
contracts |
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Bo-Irish
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